Prince William Sound
Americannoun
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Since 2020, scientists have installed monitoring instruments around the Barry Landslide in Alaska's Prince William Sound to closely track seismic activity in the area.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
The Safer holds four times the amount of oil spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
From BBC • May 31, 2023
Decades later, the toll lingers in traces of the spill that remain in Prince William Sound, where some wildlife populations—orcas, for example—have never recovered.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
Her photograph of the first oil-coated bird found in Prince William Sound in Alaska, illustrating the disaster caused by oil tanker Exxon Valdez, earned her a World Press Photo award.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
And then there was the wayward genius I bumped into on the shore of Prince William Sound in 1981.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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